This Is The Tale Of Alan A'Dale

So now you know all about him.

Singers

PeterCook

Dudley Moore

Joe Melia

Bill Wallis

John Wells

(all sadly deceased)

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Gordon Klingenschmitt has been a preacher all his life, but he still doesn't know what the bible teaches. In this video he unwittingly declares that the bible is demonic!

The original video is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iqhpumUONI

The relevant piece begins at the 24'00" mark

Sad Story

I think I know what happened here and that's why I feel sad for the young man who died. He made the simplest mistake and it cost him his life.

Notice that the water was only a few inches deep on the roadway and it was flowing freely through the spoked wheels so there was no strong water pressure against the bike. If the bike had been swept away by water pressure the wheels would have been knocked out from under the rider and the bike would have slid sideways off the road and over the edge. In the video, however, the rider actually steers the bike through a ninety-degree turn and it remains upright even as it falls off the edge of the road.

What probably happened is that the rider looked down at the water and became disorientated by its movement across the road from left to right. He was instinctively steering to the right without even realising it. If he had lifted his eyes from the water he would have got things into perspective and understood that he was in danger. But he didn't lift his eyes. Even as his bike made that ninety-degree turn, he was probably still thinking that he was traveling in a straight line across the road.

The sad thing about his death is that solution is so simple.

Before entering the water you should pick landmark directly ahead of you on the other side of the river. It might be a tree, or a bush, or a fence post, or anything at all. But whatever it is, it now becomes your aiming point. If you go from where you are now directly to your aiming point then you will have crossed the river in a beautiful straight line, and you do that by never once looking down at the water. Once your journey begins you keep your eyes focused on your aiming point and completely ignore the water flow beneath you. That prevents you from becoming disorientated and you will never make a ninety-degree turn that sends you off the road and into the river.

Pat Capocci sings "Baby Sue"

Here's a 21st Century artist who knows how to re-create the sounds of the Rockabilly genre that rose, peaked, and died, in the space of four short years from 1954 to 1958.

Just as a matter of interest, it has been estimated that 200 new rockabilly songs were recorded every week during the mid-to-late 1950s; about 50,000 altogether. (I've got about 5,000 of them in my record collection).

Only The Truly Devout Develop A Prayer Callous

Have you ever heard of a prayer callous? 

Muslims get them from banging their heads against the floor while they are praying to God. The more they bang their head, the bigger the callous gets - and the bigger the callous gets, the more devout the head banger is thought to be by his peers.

Here's an African American Muslim with a fairly 

hefty looking prayer callous on his noggin.

Looks like a nice young man.

He used to be called Merv Mitchell but he was arrested so many times (for robbery, theft, burglary, and carrying firearms) that he tried to hide from the police by converting to Islam and changing his name to Mabul Shoatz. He blew his cover in 2014, however, when some money went missing from his local mosque and he decided to do the religious thing by cutting off the thief's hand with a machette!

Well what else would you expect from a devout follower of the religion of peace?

Link to news story:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140720

Chemicals Are Being Compared In The Tour De France

I like watching the Tour De France but after the Lance Armstrong debacle I just can't get excited about it any more. The other night the winning rider went across the line and raised his arms in the air in a victory salute. My face broke into a grin as I prepared to join in the congratulations, and then I stopped in mid-smile. I wasn't watching the strongest, fastest, rider of the day. I was watching the cheat with the most effective drug masking routines and the biggest bribes paid to the officials in the drug testing department. Bicycle racing; probably the most corrupt sport in the world.

Christians Live In A Spooky Old World